Relax. Those people you hate/think you’re competing with really ain’t shit. Like, REALLY ain’t shit. And you will be shocked by how boring time will reveal them to be.

This is true but more than anything I’m nostalgic for the monoculture of television and radio. As those turned into streaming and content, my misanthropy and hatred of present day culture grew exponentially.

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Usher, Usher! Five years ago tomorrow, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tour de force received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons. In this blisteringly funny musical, a writer grapples with identity and the instincts he both loves and loathes.

More at concordsho.ws/PerformAStrang…. 💜

A friend pointed this theory out to me, comparing it to my confusion about the state of arts/entertainment today and now I can’t unsee (or unfeel) it.

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Just sittin’ here lookin’!

Ungird your loins. Eat the fruit. #teeth #teeth musical Teeth The Musical

This observation extends beyond establishment theater reviewers.

Sheeeeeee’s baaaaaaaaack …

I really appreciated Gina’s take on A Strange Loop.

The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has nominated Michael R. Jackson for LGBTQ THEATER ARTIST OF THE YEAR at the 2024 GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics!

“Clinging to complexity and nuance.” Lord have fucking mercy. Pod people/body snatchers absolutely everywhere in culture now. There is no escape and no turning back from them or this horror show of an era. Run!

And yet for as discomfiting it may feel to witness, it is nonetheless an accurate depiction of the dystopian technological revolution companies like Apple have been gleefully ushering in for years now.

I’ve got to get off this fucking app and fast. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Advice from equally frustrated writer me to another writer that I offer to anyone else who might need it on a day when I’m nonetheless feeling a little bit useless and dumb.

“Of course when you mobilize, everybody can be against the same thing. When you organize, everybody must be *for* the same thing. You mustn’t think everybody being against the same thing means everybody is for the same thing. That’s where the confusion arises.” - Kwame Touré

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